THIS Is What It Means To Be A MAN... | Navy Seal Jocko Willink 

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Stoicism isn’t about having no emotion. It’s choosing how we respond to our emotions.

Dude spent 8min saying take the middle path..... 😊

SO TRUE! Balance is harder than extreme. ☯️

Clooney & Pitt with the ❌️ next to them as 'real men' 😂

Even *Extreme Ownership* has its limits. Find balance somewhere in the dichotomies of life. It may not be easy, but it's worth the effort.

Staying balanced requires discipline

Most men today have suboptimal levels of testosterone - a lot less than their fathers or grandfathers had just 30-50 years ago. There are various reasons for this. One factor that is oftentimes neglected is endocrine disruptors in our environment (i.e., xenoestrogens, BPA, phthalates, triclosan, etc.), phytoestrogens in food (i.e., soy, which is in almost all processed foods), and hypothyroidism (subclinical or autoimmune Hashimoto's disease). To increase testosterone levels naturally and reduce chronic inflammation: • Get enough daily sunlight. • Supplement with vitamin D3 (especially during the winter or if you live in a northern climate). • Supplement with zinc picolinate (20 - 40 mg per day). • Supplement with magnesium glycinate or citrate. • Weight train regularly (3 - 5 times per week for 45 - 90 minutes). • Prioritize neuromuscular recovery, don't over-train. • Get adequate (quality) sleep. • Consume more healthy fats (monounsaturated and saturated fats from sources like grass-fed red meat, pasture-raised eggs, fatty fish, organic full-fat dairy, coconut fat, avocados, cocoa butter, certain nuts and seeds, etc.). • Increase your cholesterol intake through properly-sourced whole foods. Cholesterol is the building block of all steroid hormones, including testosterone. • Control stress. Do what you have to do to keep it under control (things like meditation, yoga, nature walks, relaxing music, massage/reflexology sessions, adaptogenic herbs, etc.). • Chronically elevated cortisol levels disrupt the HPT (hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid) axis and deplete your body of the very resources it needs to produce androgens, including testosterone. • Eat enough quality calories (not all calories are the same), and avoid large caloric deficits. • Eat adequate amounts of each macronutrient (protein, carbs, fats). All of them are important in their own way and serve specific functions. Beneficial supplements: • Ashwagandha • Maca • Taurine • L-Carnitine (increases androgen receptor density) • Creatine • Tongkat ali • Fadogia agrestis • Black ginger • Pine pollen (contains natural androgens) • Boron (increases free testosterone) • DIM (natural anti-estrogen) "The Testosterone Advantage" by Timotheus Ray is a nice read on male health and hormone optimization.

I have 3 daughters in their early 20’s and I can tell you young men and women are struggling. Not just men.

This was excellent advice, and frankly I needed this healthy reminder.

Jocko willink is the bomb his views are insightful and inspiring I've watched many of his podcasts over the years,his guests truly are hero's ... Thanks Steven I'm totally enjoying podcasts keep it up 🇦🇺😊

Be poised, steadfast, serene 🤲🏻🙏

Very important words. Thx

Wow! This was a corker for sure!!!. I’m gonna listen to this one a few more times over! I think everyone should. Thank you very much!

My good gosh! That there is some great advice. Simple question, great answer(s).

Funny said by someone whos book title is 'Extreme Ownership'

I watched this entire interview and it was brilliant. Jocko has so much to offer us with his wisdom, strength, kindness and common sense ❤ absolutely amazing human being ❤

On the masculinity topic: I would really love to see an episode with either Neil Smedley (featured in an extraordinary good Guardian Documentary on masculinity by Iman Amrani) or Connor Beaton on that issue. Keep up the great work!

Excellent approach to politics too - less extremism and more moderation will equate to less war and more peace.

Hey do not ever stop telling it like it is ! Thanks, David

Holy crap someone who actually says it. BALANCE

Toxic masculinity does not mean, nor has it ever meant, traditionally masculine traits are toxic. It means that insisting the *only* way to be masculine is to have those traditionally masculine traits. It's telling men who aren't burly, big, hairy, or if they express their feelings, they aren't "real men".

GOOD EVENING

I cant help but notice the irony of the message "don't be extreme" when his first book is called extreme ownership lol. Still great advice though.

Moderation in all things.....

Hi, Could you indicate what is the English level in each video please? I'm learning English, I need to know it

The same 10 podcasters interviewing themselves

Situation dictates what it means to be a man. Simple as that.

How much can we talk in circles and metaphors?

Balance is important Tend towards the mean Don’t be extreme

Possibly the best answer I have heard on RU-vid.

imagine someone committed to violence criticizing those committed to art.

This an extreme clip..

Absolutely loved this interview! This man gives testimony to living in balance! He has seen the best & the worst humans yet has a centered view point, on how to live life! Cudos!

Damn, did I need to hear those last few minutes about highs and lows.

The purpose of life is to serve and protect security 24 hours day and night amongst all of us, 8 billion people, five continents, one nation

Hopefully no one tells David Goggins this or there will be a train wreck of Jocko vs. ‘You Don’t Know Me Son!!!’

If you want to know what a good man is. Read the book of Proverbs and learn to think like that.

Folks remember this, to be a man you only need two things. First, be responsible/accountable for your decisions/actions. Second, be needed (take challenges its either work, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual any challenges take it don't shun away from it, because growth happen in these things and you become a man). A matured man!

The only thing extreme is ownership

Jocko got that big head, I reckon he got that big brain too

I lost both my family and my job, from selfish on both sides, not me

It's not about being a man. It's about being good.

My good friend was a few years older than me in school. He enlisted and came back with a motto. I will politely call it "Stuff Happens". Any problem... just say it. Ten years later, Jocko tells me again

Be a man, be a saint

wait... 4:08 did jocko just admit to skipping workouts after warming up? Or did i Misunderstand that

I am not struggling. I have millions of good brothers every where. If you are struggling, ask for help. You ARE a man, made in the very image of God. No man is alone, ever. Remember that.

Have you seen how he answered the Israel-Palestine mess? Answered like a confused little girl

Most men knows how to be a man with balanced masculinity, even in women since all humans were born we get our balance in life in our family(heterosexual parents), relatives, friends and community so we can get out into the world and face hard challenges in life but it's all gone now

But his book is “Extreme Leadership” 🧐

Kindness please

Women don't understand that guys play life at hardmode, and balance is important, but also the ability to switch very fast between different roles, and it also comes with a lot of interspection it isn't paint by number, or one thing allways works in every situation.

Far too much fluff in the answer to be of any use. For me it's about doing the right (good) thing, so on the night of covid lockdown, I went grocery shopping for my neighbours as both had health issues and were pretty scared by what was happening. Ended up going to 5 supermarkets to find toilet rolls. Was it some act of bravery on my part? no way, but it was a small kindness to those who needed just a little help.

Aggression is not a masculine trait, e.g. mothers will fight for their children, and that's part of being a good mother. Mothers will compete for the sake of their children too. Aggression and competitiveness are just traits, not gendered.

everything in moderation. including moderation.

I'm not going to watch this and give Jocko any of my time but consider this: There are MANY people who worked in combat theaters with him that say, on the record that he is an evil psychopath with no regard for human life, his recent comments about Gaza underscore that, his humility is a show, to make money, if he was so good he wouldve commanded a Seal Team, instead they sent him off to training and you know the saying about teachers. Be careful who you choose to admire, they almost never meet the bar.

The longest non-answer answer on RU-vid 😂

When old people are asked to reflect on what has made them happy or sad throughout their lives, its the peaks and valleys they remember most. Focusing on balance will you not in the end think you accomplished nothing?

Why is George Clooney & Brad Pitt here?

Good man as defined by whom? Other men, women, yourself? All of these will have different parameters.

Jocko willink, just as soft or hard as anyone else.

Just be me. 😊

It’s good advice but I don’t know that he actually answered the question of what it means to be a good man

This guy is 100% toxic masculinity doesn’t exist it’s just toxic people being extreme

Men, defining what real men are is to me a tiny bit misunderstood. Ask your woman instead …

Being who are out of balance are more interesting though :)

Everything in extreme is bad

We want to see podcasts with the parents of this struggling men, ask them what were they doing instead of being responsible with their kids education 😂

It's common sense but unfortunately it still needs to be said, never take anything to extremes.

Why is this in my feed It’s not what I would choose

Pick up your cross and follow Christ.

no offense but the host... the way be acts... Id say that he was 100% gay about 10 years ago... but these days there are so many men who, in conversation suddenly mentions that they are married or have a girlfriend and I'm surprised. Men dont have to be overtly 'masculine' but man... they dont have to act feminine - Ironically I have never been around an aggressive and bullying male... but since I started work in the 1990s - th eonly probelms with abuse have been from women managers and bosses....

This is the worst answer I’ve ever heard jocko say about anything wtf

Being competitive is not natural, Jocko... Working together is. It's toxic to compete with yourself... thats self hate, and the root of this toxic path.. Hard work isn't to distinguish us from others... its to balance us with others.. I enjoyed the bit on balance, but its incomplete. If we keep fostering competition, we will never survive. . Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.. Everyone knows this, that's why they're working so hard to steer us away from our truth.

I don’t see how this answer has anything to do with being a good man in particular!?

Wow. They spoke for 8 minutes and said nothing.

mmm

👌🦾🦾🦾yes❤

This guy isn’t saying anything profound. It’s crazy how being a navy seal qualifies you in the eyes of dopes who lack critical thinking think that somehow qualifies you to declare what a man is. It’s very strange and a very low bare. His answer is really lacking. It was a series of hypothetical examples at the extremes. Very silly and juvenile thinking.

Clickbait titles are really off-putting for a chanel of this type. Not this particular video. but in general. It kinda insults intelligence

Is the interviewer masculine?

It's much easier to be extreme? Absolutely not. What kind of garbage take is that? The human experience comes to life on the extremes. It's much easier to LARP at being extreme, maybe. But to actually be extreme while maintaining ideological consistency? to be willingly disagreeable and able to battle to whole world just to see yourself through to the end as an an exon? There is nothing harder, metal, or more manly than that. This man is wrong.

It looks like Jocko doesn't know what stoicism is.. Maybe a slip of the tongue...

Be balanced, God first, common sense!

What is a women? 😮

Jocko is the last person anyone should be taking any advice from. The truth is out about his past.

Stop looking for advice on parenting from sociopaths. Task Unit Bruiser…

If you want to see an example of what a good man is then look at Bill Clinton, Jamie Dimon, Mitch McConnell, Richard Skrewshi and Ira Rennet.

I gave up 3 minutes in. The Ego is alive and well... the man is clearly a genius.. just ask him.. he'll tell ya

This is from the Kamala Harris school of word salad

What's the deal with the thumbnail? Always disappointing when people employ such cheap tactics.

Why do Americans repeat themselves.

I'm sorry, but nothing was said here. It's obvious he doesn't know what a man is either.

How is it the U.S population exceeds 340 billion people and all the high grossing youtubers have on the same guests? Could we find someone new so we could hear something new?

Jocko looks more simian than man.

As a women who listens to you show often, I had to turn this guy off @4:16 into it. Couldn’t take his rapid fire shouting or lead up to a very thoughtful question.

Like a barking pitbull , couldn’t understand what he was on about, shouting the word balance!

I don't take advice from an assassin